What Was The First Album/Cd You Purchased For Yourself?

1)first cassingle: 'chain reaction' by john farnham
2)first tape: 'honeychild' by jenny morrisson
3)first cd: 'august and everything after' by counting crows

what the hell was i doing buying all this music i didn't like? 1)dunno 2)the lead single from it was #1 on the charts at the time and everyone at school used to sing it 3) to please my auntie because she provided the cash for it. the music i really liked was naughty and had swearing in it (eg. u2 "don't let the bastards grind you down) or 'bad thoughts'. i thought she would like it because david letterman did.

first tape: Please Hammer don't hurt em

First CD I called my own, though my dad bought it. Donald Fagen, Kamakiriad.
I was a weird kid.

(last records bought (ordered, actually): Daft Punk's Homework and Discovery--thanx to y'all out there)

can't remember my first cd or vinyl (i don't have much vinyl anyway).

Cassette: Guns 'n' Roses, G'n'R Lies

CD: Sex Pistols, Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols (in 1989, bought the same day I got my first CD player)

Wait, I'm wrong about this. I was buying cassettes before 1989. I remember buying tapes at the big Ames (was it Ames?) superstore on the way upstate when I went to visit my brother at his group home. I was into metal then, and I bought whatever I thought was cool on Headbanger's Ball.

In 1988, bought on the same day: Metallica's Master of Puppets and Sonic Youth's Daydream Nation (which I learned about from a metal magazine)(!).

First CDs - Peter Gabriel's _So_ and Kate Bush - _The Hounds of Love_ back when twenty-two bucks was an unimaginable amount to spend on a single LP worth of material.

First single would probably have to be World Destruction _Time Zone_, but i didn't call anything a single if it was bigger than 7" wide.

The only time i've ever bought a recorded cassette was when friends and i were on a roadtrip through Australia and our stash of tapes had gotten stale. Bought a Split Enz greatest hits and Talking Heads _Naked_. This was the summer of 1990. Gas went up to 1.65 a litre!

The first compact disc I bought (in `89 or so, after forsaking my turntable) was CHIPS FROM THE CHOCOLATE FIREBALL by the Dukes of Stratosphear (ala XTC).

Sorry, I'm only on the first cup of coffee. That should've read:

Like I said, the first album I ever spent....

Ooh, could you imagine Chipmunks From the Chocolate Fireball??

I lucked out on this one. My mom won a raffle and the prize was an RCA CD player. It was my stereo CD player up until around mid 2000 when the motor went out. It took a beating and I would love to know exactly how many hours of music it actually played.

first 8 track tape with own money: Foreigner - s/t (Atlantic, 1977)

first cassette tape with own money: Billy Squier - "Don't Say No" (Capitol, 1981)

first CD with own cash: the Cure - "Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me" (Elektra, 1987)

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No regrets...

My first LP was 'The Very Best of David Bowie' with my Xmas money in 1980.

First 7" was 'What you're proposing' by Status Quo.

First CD: 'Kill Uncle'.

That would be Jim Irvin, singer in Furniture, I believe! Also played surreptitious guitar on a handful of early Gay Dad tracks, if memory serves...but I'm sure he doesn't want to talk about that.

Josefa, we woulda hung out spinning records in the 80s. I still have that Robyn 3" CD!

My teenage boys answers to these questions: "BUY music?"

Oh wow! I lost my “Balloon Man” somewhere along the line. I had high hopes for the 3” CD single format but it fizzled out as quickly as it appeared. I don’t even have the necessary adaptor to play my Lisa Lisa one anymore.

TMNT soundtrack

My first CD3 was this:
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I owe to it the mindblowing discovery that Peter Gabriel had been a member of Genesis! I also eventually bought all the parent albums represented, over the course of about fifteen years.

Pretty sure it was this bad boy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europop_(album)